Integrations overview

Beyond playing content, impressPlayer can connect to external systems and hardware so screens react to the world around them — a camera sees a person, a sensor fires, a broker sends a message — or so you analyse who's watching.

These are advanced features, configured per device and usually set up together with impressBox. Each has its own page:

• MQTT — connect a screen to an MQTT message broker to trigger or report events.

• UDP network triggers — start playback from simple UDP network messages on the local network.

• Hikvision camera — react to events from a Hikvision camera (e.g. motion / line crossing).

• AI inference (camera analytics) — measure audience attention and demographics from a camera, with content insights.

• LED screen monitoring — health checks and self-test for LED video walls.

Related, documented elsewhere:

• Canva — import designs as content (see Importing a Canva design).

• The built-in AI assistant can perform most impressBox tasks from plain-language requests.

Because integrations touch your network and hardware, plan them with impressBox so endpoints, credentials, and triggers are configured and tested correctly. Never put real credentials in shared documents.